..and every other alphabet I've ever known: through song. I guess the only reason I still remember the order of the English alphabet is because of the song. Fact is, we remember songs better than we remember monotonous repetition. I learned the alphabet in order a few years back here when I first began to get interested in the language and since then it's stuck. Knowing the alphabet order is pretty handy when you're using an Arabic dictionary although (unfortunately) there aren't many situations where singing that song is particularly handy.
Just a little google search and you'll find that there's plenty of kids songs on various topics like months, days of the week, colours and fruits which are all both incredibly useful and incredibly silly for an adult learner. But there's nothing wrong with a bit of silly especially when it gets the job done!
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